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A spectre is haunting the translation industry – the spectre
of machine translation. As the fear to be driven out of the marketplace is
advancing inland further into the heart of every business due to the technological
developments, translators are also having their fair shares of this fear – the
machines taking our jobs! How we’ve been dealing with this challenge is projecting what
seems to be going to happen to us. Most of the professional comments I’ve read
so far indicate that a big part of the market is still unable to predict what
the future holds for us. We are just hiding our fears by laughing away the incompetent
results of neural machine translations. Some claim that MT still has a long way –several decades– to
go until human translators are expelled and forced out of the market, but how
much headway MT has made over the past decades is ignored, let alone its
potential to be a tool indistinguishable from human translators. But should we really be afraid of MT? Will it really t…